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Top 7 Backbone.js Alternatives
A 2012 roundup of Backbone.js alternatives — Ember, Knockout, CanJS, Spine, and others — capturing the moment when JavaScript MVC frameworks were proliferating rapidly. The JS framework wars of 2012-2014 look very different in retrospect: most of the contenders are gone.
Getting Started With Ember.js
Andy Matthews' getting started guide for Ember.js, written in early 2012 when Ember was still called SproutCore 2.0 and the framework was in flux. Ember was the ambitious option in the Backbone vs Ember vs Angular debate that defined frontend JS frameworks in 2012.
Spine.js vs Backbone.js
A 2012 comparison of Spine.js and Backbone.js — the two leading JavaScript MVC frameworks before Angular, Ember, and React. Both aimed to bring structure to increasingly complex client-side web apps.
Introduction to Backbone.js: Models
Introduction to Backbone.js tutorial bookmarked in 2012, when Backbone was the leading client-side MVC framework. A historical reference point for how JavaScript frontend architecture was organized before React and virtual DOM changed everything.